WPRO Newsroom and the Associated Press
The Boston Police Department reported Wednesday that three more individuals have been taken into custody in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings.
According to the Associated Press, a lawyer says two of the three people are men originally from Kazakhstan and who were friendly with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the main suspect.
Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev appeared via video for a visa violation hearing in immigration court in Boston on Wednesday.
Boston attorney Linda Cristello represented them and confirmed they now face separate federal charges and have a court appearance this afternoon related to the Boston Marathon bombing.
She says lawyers don't know what the charges are and won't until later.
The two have been held in a county jail for more than a week on allegations that they violated their student visas while attending the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth with Tsarnaev, who is originally from Russia.
Cristello did not say who the third suspect was.
We will update this story as more information becomes available.
